Still extravagant, it goes so far, here is a close up of a painting of Rembrandt

DETAIL of Portrait of a Man, 1632
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, 1606–1669)
Oil on wood

Oval, 29 3/4 x 20 1/2 in. (75.6 x 52.1 cm)

Well it's been a while, i'm gone again, I'll be back soon. I have a new lover who lives in an indian reserve, it is quite something else life overthere!
In the meantime, check out the work of William Lazos
http://www.williamlazos.com/photorealism-fineart.php
xoxo
Nathalie

THE FEMALE GAZE
WOMEN LOOK AT WOMEN
Opening Thursday 25 June from 6 to 8 pm.
Exhibition continues through 19 September 2009.

Cheim & Read
547 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001
Hours
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm

There is this show right now
Hubert de Lartigue:
Three French Girls

7 May – 6 June, 2009

at Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery
37 West 57th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
(6th Floor)
I absolutely love "Douce Lumiere", my friend Hubert is having his solo show there and here is the link to his blog with tons of photos:
http://hubertdelartigue.blogspot.com


"Douce Lumiere" and detail from "Portrait de Luh"

Check out this great new blog about women painters who paint portraits of women. The author of the blog is a very good painter herself, Sadie J. Valeri.
It has many of my favorite painters and many to discover!

Where to start?
This blog thingy is already looking like a plane dashboard..but anyhoo :D
...my paintings have raised some questions recently about beauty.

I embrace the idea that "beauty concerns the sociological fabrications of a society and not some kind of transcendent revelation of an Eternal Truth."

Michel Onfray, a major philosopher, discusses this in "Archeologie du present"...just awesome. Here is a guy who proposes an other alternative, a postmodern beauty.

Now...a woman's body. Some feminists had suppressed their own sexuality...
But if there is some equality between the sexes, a woman should be able to be a woman in just a woman's body and form. The bodies I paint fill the space, they impose their sexuality.

Je n'utilise ce blog que rarement pour l'instant.

I am rarely using this blog at this time, but you are welcome to see more of my work at www.nathalievogel.com